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EcSil
EcSil

Reputation: 11

Converting LaTeX document to word using pandoc -- problem with tables with multicolumns

I use pandoc to convert my latex documents into word documents.

Most of my tables have multicolumns. Rows with cells across multiple columns don't appear in my final word document and I don't really understand why.

Here some LaTeX example code:

\documentclass{article} 


                                
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} 
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}                                    
\usepackage{enumerate}  
\usepackage[ngerman,british]{babel}                             
\usepackage{amsfonts,amssymb, mathtools}
\usepackage{bm}                     
\usepackage{graphicx}           

\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{booktabs}




\begin{document}
Here the table: 

\begin{table}[tbp] \centering
    \caption{Test table} 
    \begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{XXXXX}
        \toprule
        & \multicolumn{2}{l}{\emph{Cat 1}} & \multicolumn{2}{l}{\emph{Cat 2}} \\
        \addlinespace
        Data & Estimate & Standard error & Estimate & Standard error\\
        \cmidrule(){1-1} \cmidrule(l){2-3} \cmidrule(l){4-5}
        Group all & -0.009 & 0.008 & -0.008 & 0.008\\
        \addlinespace
        Group A & -0.009 & 0.011 & -0.001 & 0.009\\
        Group B & -0.010 & 0.011 & -0.016 & 0.013\\
        \bottomrule
        \multicolumn{5}{l}{${*}$ \emph{p} < 0.1, ${*}{*}$ \emph{p} < 0.05, ${*}{*}{*}$ \emph{p} < 0.01}
    \end{tabularx}
    
    \vspace{0.5em}
    \parbox{.9\textwidth}{\raggedright \emph{%
    Notes: 
    Some notes.
    } }
\end{table} 

\end{document}

The lines with \multicolumn in them are empty in the word document (also, no horizontal lines).

Is there a way to allow for multicolumn in latex tables and have pandoc include these in the resulting word document?

For completeness, my Mac terminal code to transform it from latex to word:

pandoc -o foo.docx foo.tex

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1919

Answers (1)

tarleb
tarleb

Reputation: 22609

Pandoc, as of June 2020, does not support multicolumn tables in LaTeX. See this issue for details.

Upvotes: 2

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